Open Thread

But I’ll be in P-Town for two weeks beginning the 30th.

Legion, you are mistaken about the direction of LaRouche’s wings.

You are also overbroad in your claims for the Republican party as THE civil rights party through the 60s.

From FDR on, there were different factions in both parties. The FDR portion of teh democratic party was probably ahead of most republicans on that front at that time, certainly the laissez-faire business types that had been ascendant throught he 20s. Truman desegregated the military. Later, in the late 40s through the 50s, republicans of the McCarthyite persuasion found common cause with segregationist southern democrats in trying to undermine the civil rights movement with false and wild accusations of Soviet influence. Thurgood Marshall was appointed to the federal bench at several levels, each time by a democratic president. Kennedy had an uneasy relationship with the civil rights movement but you can’t exactly say he was outflanked to the left on integration by Nixon in the 1960 election. Johnson went farther than the republicans were willing to go on their own on civil rights in 64-65, althought liberal republicans were an important part of the voting block in congress on those bills.

Hard to credit the notion that your own opinions are the result of any serious sifting of competing ideas and facts, given your oversimplistic and agenda-driven reading of history. But, to each his own.

Thanks Kens! I think it will be Hope and Anchor then, was tossing around the idea of Bar Tabac but they open at 10am and that would leave the schedule tight.

I echo Snappy’s statement, discussion is fine but leave the name-calling and dog-piling at the door. Everyone was so happy about the meetups being so diverse. We can be as tolerant and open to discussion here as in person.

i totally scroll past anything political. seriously all i hear is wonk wonk wonk zzzzzzzz

*rob*

What Snappy said! Well put!